As Adobe have now released Flash v10.1 I’m sure a lot of you will be excited to get it installed to try out the new hardware accelerated decoding features. Upon attempting to install myself however, I came across… An error! The .xpi Firefox extension downloaded quite happily (the getPlus+ utility which is referred to as [...]
NVIDIA and Microsoft, whomever is responsible; have very nicely decided to ‘package’ the latest NVIDIA graphics drivers and put them on the Windows Update system for download. Being a little pedantic, I got tired of seeing it sat there reminding me about “1 optional update” and so decided to update to the latest… v197.45 . [...]
An infected Windows XP machine I recently took a look at had, by whatever method, the fake anti-virus software “Antivirus 2010″ installed. This is one of the typical programs which advertises itself on websites by saying that your computer is infected when it isn’t! After identifying the process, “av.exe” and fiddling around to remove it, [...]
Like many I have finally converted to running Irssi under Screen, but sometimes connect to the host running it from a Windows machine by using the program PuTTY. Because of this, I would often get funny images appearing in place of pretty common characters. There are three settings which have to be set to take [...]
Many people make use of administrative shares (the x$ hidden shares representing drive x) for file sharing between Windows computers. Perhaps fortunately for security, but unfortunately for us technical people, Microsoft decided to disable these as default from now on. Thus prevent ing these being accessed using a system’s local usernames and passwords. This means [...]
